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Beyond Guantanamo
President obama has begun his final push to close the offshore prison. But America’s bigger challenge is deciding what to do with tomorrow's prisoners in a war without end.
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How the Feds Asked Me to Rat Out Commenters
Reason.com, the website I edit, was recently commanded by the feds to provide information on a few commenters and not discuss it. Here’s why we’re speaking out. Is there anything more likely to make you shit your pants out of a mix of fear and anger than getting a federal subpoena out of the blue? Well, yes, there is: getting a gag order that prohibits you from speaking publicly about that subpoena and even the gag order itself.
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How a journalist is navigating the dangers of reporting in Egypt
As press freedom wanes in Egypt, how do journalists operate? DW spoke to Emir Nader, a political journalist at an English-language newspaper in Cairo, about the nuances of reporting amid arrests, gag orders and violence.
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Google Was Gagged For Four Years From Talking About Fighting The Wikileaks Investigation
Reporter, activity and security guy Jacob Appelbaum has been harassed by the government for years for helping with Wikileaks. We've written before about how he gets detained at the border and is ordered to hand over all of his electronic equipment...
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The reasonable expectation fallacy
The ability to delete yourself from the Web doesn't really matter. What really matters in the age of advanced surveillance is the right to not be correlated. Technology is always watching and capturing you, but the correlation is where the danger lies. Laws can change that, but only if enacted soon. By Dan Geer.
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Hackers Stole Secrets of U.S. Government Workers’ Sex Lives
Infidelity. Sexual fetishes. Drug abuse. Crushing debt. They’re the most intimate secrets of U.S. government workers. And now they’re in the hands of hackers.
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Christie’s Conspiracy: Terror Plot of the Fort Dix Five
Chris Christie has trumpeted his role in the prosecution of men behind a foiled New Jersey terror plot. But new evidence reveals how the accused were set up by authorities before being sentenced to life in prison.
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What Is the Big Secret Surrounding Stingray Surveillance?
State and local law enforcement agencies across the U.S. are setting up fake cell towers to gather mobile data, but few will admit it.
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UK Politician Theresa May Tries To Out-Orwell Orwell With Insanely Authoritarian Speech
While she insists that the UK isn't a surveillance state, she can't tell you why, because revealing the secrets of the UK surveillance state might put the public at risk...
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The NSA’s Reaction to the Original Bush Warrantless Wiretapping Story
Among the files leaked by Edward Snowden is the NSA report on the New York Times' 2005 story on domestic surveillance.
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Think it’s cool Facebook can auto-tag you in pics? So does the government
Our own government, as well as police and intelligence agencies around the world, will likely mine facial recognition data or create their own databases. By Trevor Timm.
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Why We Encrypt
By Bruce Schneier.
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FBI Claims it Doesn’t Have to Share Records with Justice Dept. Inspector General
The FBI has contended since 2010 that the IG’s office lacks the legal authority to see documents related to certain matters, including grand juries, Title III electronic surveillances and Fair Credit Reporting Act information. FBI officials also claim they don’t have to share documents related to two investigations of alleged whistleblower retaliation, or those pertaining to an IG review of the FBI’s use of telephonic metadata.
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Florida Man, Accused of Terrorism Based on Book Collection, Set Free
The U.S. government had produced “snippets of information from various sources, out of context, to weave together a narrative of terrorist ideation,” a Florida judge said Friday, ordering the release...
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NSA -- Despite Claiming It Doesn't Engage In Economic Espionage -- Engaged In Economic Espionage
The NSA has long claimed that it does not engage in
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With court approval, NSA resumes bulk collection of phone data
A secret surveillance court says the government can resume collection for a 180-day transition period.
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XKEYSCORE: NSA's Google for the World's Private Communications
One of the NSA's most powerful tools of mass surveillance makes tracking someone’s Internet usage as easy as entering an email address, and provides no built-in technology to prevent abuse. Today, The Intercept is publishing 48 top-secret and other classified documents about XKEYSCORE dated up to 2013, which shed new light on the breadth, depth and functionality of this critical spy system.
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The CIA helped sell a mapping startup to Google. Now they won’t tell us why
"We can neither confirm nor deny..." By Yasha Levine.
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Following WikiLeaks Revelations, Julian Assange Asks For Asylum In France, France Rejects His Request
It was easy to see it coming. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange formally asked for asylum in France in a letter sent to Le Monde.
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David Cameron: Twitter and Facebook privacy is unsustainable
Privacy of social media users 'can no longer be tolerated' in the face of international terror
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